Making a Business Logo

Does anyone here have suggestion on how to do this?

Thanks!

I'd like to know also!

I have helped others with this a few times before, but the biggest problem that I have seen in the past is that the business needs to have an idea of what they are looking for to start with. Some like to keep it very simple and clean, yet striking - Yea , an impossible task. Others just want to use a picture, but end up regretting it later as pictures can be awkward on cards, letterheads, etc.

Most start off by using their business name and incorporating something from that business as a picure or outline. Play with fonts, styles and sizes. If you are intending to use a logo as a watermark , it needs to be able to resize appropriately. Do the edges need to be hard or soft, sharp, bold, etc?

I have seen people take a photo of an object and then manipulate that into a black and white embossed look, i.e. a weaver bird in a nest ( and then work a drawing from that) , or a circuit board and then addind a perspective to it e.g. bold front and faded back.

There are so many variations, definitely do a google search "logo designs" (and select images), that should give you some ideas. Definitely play a lot before deciding. It is definitely a personal choice and uniquely associated with you.

Can this be done in.......what program? Word, etc???? Is special software needed?

We had ours done by a graphic artist. He charged $50.
Times have changed, business has changed but not our logo. This is how people know us.

He supplied it in different formats so any printer could use it or we could just add it to our documents in MS Word or MS Excel.

There are many different graphic programs that can be used - I have in the past done mine using adobe photoshop and then also using adobe elementals, earlier I used paintshop pro, - I know there are now much easier aplpications that can be used, I think many businesses used Corel Draw as that provides an excellent output for graphic printers , although that may show my age a bit .

Basically any graphic program should be able to get you started, but I think you should just draw your basic logo initially , and than take a picture of it and bring that into a graphic program - makes it easier , unless you are real handy with graphic apps, and have a sketching tablet (those are cool )